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B. 'BLANKENSHIR LISTING PLOW.

NO- 479.779 Patented Aug. 2, 1892.

UNITED STATES PATENT OEEICE.

BENNETT BLANKENSHIP, Oli BELLEVILLE, KANSAS.

LISTING-PLOW.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 479,779, dated August 2, 1892. Application filed February 26, 1892. Serial No. 422,889. (No model.)

- ville, in the county of Republic and State of Kansas, have invented a new and useful Listing-Plow, of which the following is a specifi- My invention relates to improvements in listing-plows; and it consists incertain features of construction and combinations of parts, as will be hereinafter more fully described, and pointed ont in the claims.

The object of the invention is to provide a bed of loose earth for receiving the corn to be planted, and also to provide means whereby the water during heavy rain is led off from the corn.

In the drawings, Figure l is a perspective view of a plow of the character set forth embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is an end elevation thereof. Fig. 3 is a bottom plan view of the same.

In the drawings the plow-beam is shown as formed by two bars A A, united at their fr ont ends and diverging rearwardly and downwardly, being connected at their lower rear ends to the landsides of the plow. nA spreader bar or rod A is attached to the rear of the bars A A to offer a resistance to the strain brought to bear on said bar. From the rear portions of said bars A, below the spreaderbar A', are secured the handle-bars C, having braces D, also connected to said bars A. The lower portions of the bars A are bent outwardly, then curved inwardly, as at a, and then downwardly for attachment to the landsides E, which are arranged parallel and separated by an intervening space. The moldboards F are secured to the landsides by braces F and to the extended bent ends of the handle-bars C, as fully shown in Figs. 2 and 3. The plow-points G are connected to the moldboards, as well as the landsides, by preferred means; but the braces F are attached both to the plow-points and to the mold-boards and then bent in such manner as to be connected to the landsides, as stated. It will thus be seen that a strong and durable construction is provided, and by means of the curved construction of the bars A, as at a, choking of the plow is prevented when working in heavy and cloddy ground, as by this means lumps or clods are allowed to pass freely between said bars at said point a.

4The action is very simple. As the shovel passes over the ground it makes a furrow on either side of a ridge left in the center, which may be loosened by a subsoil-plow to receive corn or other seed.

The'advantages and conveniences arising from the row-spacing construction set forth will be readily understood by those skilled in the art and need not be further herein explained.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new isl. In a plow for listing corn, the combination of a beam made in two parts diverging from each other rearward andoontinued downward and bent outwardly and then curved inwardly to increase the size of the throat between the said lower portions of the diverged parts of the beam and mold-boards and landsides connected to said diverged parts of the beam, thereby forming an intervening space between the opposing situated landsides, substantially as described.

2. In a plow for listing corn, the combination of the beam made of two parts diverging rearwardly and which are curved outward, bent outwardly, and then curved inwardly at their rear lower ends and downward for attachment to landsides arranged parallel with each other and having an intervening space between them, mold-boards attached to said beam, and curved angularly-bent braces extending from the mold-boards and plow-points thereof to said landsides, substantially as described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

BENNETT BLANKENSHIP.

Vitne-sses:

J. A. LAoEY, J. A. WOOD. 

